
omen | omen: n. portent, augury, sign, token, foretoken, indication, harbinger, forewarning, premonition, foreshadowing, writing on the wall, prognostic, presage: Solar eclipses were once regarded as omens, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
ominous | ominous: adj. 1 foreboding, threatening, fateful, dark, black, gloomy, lowering or louring, menacing, sinister; unpropitious, unfavourable, ill-omened, ill-starred, unpromising, star-crossed, inauspicious: With ominous solemnity, the judge placed a black cloth square on his head before passing the death sentence. 2 minatory, warning, admonitory, cautionary: The whispering had taken on ominous overtones. 3 portentous, prophetic, oracular, vaticinal, predictive, prognostic, augural, mantic, sibyllic, meaningful, premonitory, foreshadowing, foretelling, foretokening, indicative: Virtually everything was regarded as ominous in ancient times.
omission | omission: n. 1 non-inclusion, omitting, leaving out or off, excluding, eliminating, dropping, skipping; exclusion, exception, deletion, elimination, excision: The omission of your name from the list was a mistake. Allowing for inadvertent omissions, the inventory is complete. 2 failure, default, neglect, dereliction, oversight, shortcoming, negligence: She is being punished for her innocent omission in failing to notify the police while he is at liberty despite his deliberate commission of a crime.
omit | omit: v. 1 leave out, exclude, skip, except, pass over; delete, erase, cancel, eradicate, edit out, strike (out), dele, cut (out), cross out, obliterate: She was offended because he omitted any mention of all that she had contributed. 2 neglect, disregard, fail, forget, overlook, let slide, ignore: I omitted to tell you that your sister telephoned yesterday.
